Responses: 1) a visual artist who makes work about natural history; 2) a friend who has witnessed forest fires near Durango, Colorado; 3) a couple who runs a permaculture farm in east Austin; 4) hosts of a political podcast based in Miami; 5) the former director of TreeFolks; 6) a popular architecture critic who is obsessed with houseplants on the side; 7) a woman who works in riparian forest restoration